News

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Total Lubmarine has launched a 100 base number cylinder oil, Talusia Universal 100, designed to reduce the risk of cold corrosion in Mark 8.1 and newer marine engines, as well as electronically…

4th December 2013

Total Lubmarine joins 100BN cylinder oil market

4th December 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Classification society Bureau Veritas is classing what it says are the world’s largest bilobe gas tanks, now nearing completion at China’s Sinopacific yard.

4th December 2013

World’s largest bilobe LNG tanks to BV Class

4th December 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

GE Marine has joined forces with Lloyd’s Register and Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company (DSIC) of China to develop a design for a gas turbine-powered LNG carrier.

4th December 2013

New design for gas turbine-powered LNG carrier

4th December 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

SKF Blohm + Voss Industries has introduced the SC3 ring, a new lip sealing ring for the company’s Simplex-Compact stern tube seals, which features a new shape allowing the ring to function…

4th December 2013

New generation of sealing rings

4th December 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Rolls-Royce says it has won an order to provide design and integrated equipment packages for two UT 771 WP platform supply vessels to be built by Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group in China.

4th December 2013

Rolls-Royce design and equipment for Sinopacific PSVs

4th December 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

MaK engines have been selected to power an Østensjø Rederi newbuild set for delivery in spring 2016, to be constructed by Kleven Shipyard in Norway.

4th December 2013

Caterpillar to supply engines for Kleven OCV

4th December 2013

APPOINTMENTS

APPOINTMENTS

Exhaust solutions company Halyard, has appointed Andrew Davis as sales director to manage its UK and international sales.

4th December 2013

Halyard appoints new sales director

4th December 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

America’s Hyde Marine has launched a new ballast water treatment system at Marintec 2013 which claims to offer a smaller footprint for retrofits and newbuilds.

3rd December 2013

New ballast water system launched

3rd December 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Alfa Laval has launched an updated version of its Fuel Conditioning Module, to be known as the FCM One, designed to offer a greater range of parameters and increased flexibility.

3rd December 2013

New version of Alfa Laval’s Fuel Conditioning Module

3rd December 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Danish naval architecture practice Knud E Hansen has announced a contract from Shanghai-based CS Marine to develop a design for a 120m ro-pax ship for operation from Hainan Island in the South…

3rd December 2013

New ferry design for South China Sea

3rd December 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Wärtsilä is to supply its new two-stroke, low pressure, dual-fuel engine for Denmark’s Terntank Rederi AS, which will mark the first installation of the engine.

2nd December 2013

New Wärtsilä engine for Terntank tankers

2nd December 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Castrol Marine says that it has developed a completely new cylinder oil in response to corrosion issues in modern two-stroke engines, particularly relating to slow steaming.

2nd December 2013

Lubricant addresses cylinder corrosion issues

2nd December 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

MAN Diesel & Turbo’s PrimeServ retrofit team is to provide a propeller upgrade for a 105,000dwt crude oil carrier owned by Great Eastern Shipping Company (GESCO) of Mumbai, India.

2nd December 2013

Indian tanker gets Kappel propeller retrofit

2nd December 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Becker Marine Systems reports that its subsidiary Hybrid Port Energy of Hamburg has awarded a building contract to Shipbuilding and Machinery of Komárno, Slovakia to build what it describes as “the world’s…

2nd December 2013

Gas-fuelled cold ironing for Hamburg

2nd December 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Wärtsilä is introducing two new auxiliary engine and generator packages, the Auxpac 16 and the Auxpac 32.

2nd December 2013

New auxiliary engine packages from Wärtsilä

2nd December 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Incat Tasmania Pty Ltd has signed a contract with Japanese ferry operator Sado Kisen for the construction of a new 85m wave piercing catamaran.

2nd December 2013

New Incat ferry for Japan

2nd December 2013

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Gibraltar shipyard Gibdock reports that it has continued to attract technically advanced offshore support vessel repair and maintenance projects.

1st December 2013

Gibdock continues offshore support ship dockings

1st December 2013

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

The German Lindenau Werft yard recently docked two ships operated by Bitunamel Feldmann of Lubeck, a contractor involved in specialised piling work for the offshore industry.

1st December 2013

Lindenau works on specialist piling vessels

1st December 2013

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Alewijnse Marine Systems says that it completed electrical repairs and modifications on Van Oord’s flexible fallpipe vessel Stornes, within just three weeks.

1st December 2013

Alewijnse achieves fast timescale for electrical repair

1st December 2013

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

In order for the IMO BWM Convention to enter into force, it must be ratified by not less than 30 member states whose combined merchant fleet constitutes not less than 35% of…

1st December 2013

BWM Convention, the current state

1st December 2013